The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

The infantry's history to 250 years of U.S. military standard-issue weapons, from the smoothbore musket to the M7 rifle ...

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...

Reading about history is something that people either love or avoid because there’s a fear it can be boring, bias and revised. One of my favorite genres in literature, however, ...

As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

Even if America does not intervene against the regime, how can Iran hold together as a country in the aftermath of such ...

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

The Whipple Building isn’t part of Historic Fort Snelling, but it sits on a small, unincorporated swath of land known as the Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory. The history of that land, including ...

They get to understand the different aspects of history and why we have the freedoms that we have today," a program head told Military.com.

What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...